Mayor George Ferguson, CBE, PRIBA, RWA, City of Bristol, UK (2015 Green Capital of Europe). Architect & Urbanist. A man who makes things happen, international champion of placemaking, sustainability, and cities for people. Making Bristol Healthy for All

Amanda Fritz, Commissioner, City of Portland, OR. Portland’s Special Work with People Experiencing Houselessness

Robert Gifford, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, BC, CANADA. The Consequences of Living in High-Rise Buildings

Mayor Charlie Hales, City of Portland, OR. Welcome & Making Portland Healthy for All

Suzanne H. Crowhurst Lennard, Ph.D.(Arch.), Co-founder and Director, International Making Cities Livable Conference. Shaping the Healthy City for All

Lamine Mahdjoubi, Ph.D., Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, Bristol, UNITED KINGDOM. Healthy Streets for Children

John Massengale, AIA, Architect and Urbanist, New York, NY. Co-author: Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, a guide for how to design streets that are human scale, and hospitable to people. Street Design

Dr. Sven von Ungern-Sternberg, former Freiburg Mayor and Governor, State of Süd-Baden, GERMANY, responsible for guiding Europe’s most livable and sustainable new urban neighborhoods, Rieselfeld and Vauban. Welcome & Planning a Healthy Neighborhood for All

Joe Zehnder, AICP, Chief Planner, City of Portland, OR, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. Planning for Health and Equity in Portland

Additional Speakers

Amber Baker, Program Director, Village Gardens & Karen Cellarius, Senior Research Associate, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. Village Gardens: Building Community and Healthy Food Sources

Eileen M. Brennan, Research Professor of Social Work, Regional Research Institute for Human Services, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA. Promoting Health Equity through Community Based Participatory Research

Lise Burcher, Associate Professor, University of Guelph, Puslinch, ON, CANADA. Emerging Best Practices in the Design of the Public Realm: Case Study of a Multi-Faceted Approach to Civic Space Re-Design

Jassen Callender, Associate Professor, Director of the Jackson Center, Mississippi State University School of Architecture, Jackson, MS, USA. Making Cities LAST

Dr. Jerry Everett, Research Director, Center for Transportation Research, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA. Tennessean’s Walking/Biking to School Attitudes/Behavior Compared to Neighboring States and to Bike/Ped Friendly Communities

Sherry J. Fontaine, PhD, Associate Professor and Director, Master of Public Health Program Creighton University School of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Omaha, NE, USA. Aging in Place through Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities

Paula Gardner, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON, CANADA. “Through Their Eyes” – Intergenerational Projects to Generate Community Participation and Make Neighborhoods Healthy For All

Andrea C. Gielen, Professor and Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Injury Research and Policy, Baltimore, MD, USA. If You Build it...do it Safely! Building in Safety While Creating Active Urban and Building Environments

John Gilderbloom, Ph.D., Department of Urban and Public Affairs, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA. Two-Way Street Conversion: Evidence of Increased Livability in Louisville

Angelika Manner, Dipl.-Ing., Scientific Collaborator and Teacher, Institute of Geosciences and Geographie, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, GERMANY. Which Ways to Go For Ways to Be Well? The Infrastructure for the Quality Of Life and a Planning Method That Recognizes People in Their Daily Routine

Michele McKay, Landscape Architect, Owner of McKay Landscape Architects, Chicago, IL, USA. Harvest Commons Apartments: How a Repurposed Building and Site has Restarted the Lives of its Residents

Russell Nelson, Community Planner, City of Coquitlam, BC, CANADA. Sustainable Communities and Housing Policy: Building Livable and Resilient Neighbourhoods in Coquitlam

Alex Norr, Student, University of Illinois and Urbana Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. Design Recommendations to Mitigate Bicycle-Auto Incidents in the Urbana-Champaign Illinois Area

Dr. Alpana Sivam, Senior Lecturer, University of South Australia, School of Natural and Built Environments, Adelaide, AUSTRALIA. Neighbourhood Design and Healthy Living

Heidi Hansen Smith, Health Professional, Hawaii State Department of Health, and Lehua Choy, Program Evaluator, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA. Lessons Learned From a Small Pilot Bike Share Program in a Suburban Community in Hawaii

Andrew Wheeler, Researcher, Healthy Built Environments Program, City Futures Research Centre, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AUSTRALIA. Making Cities Healthy for All: The Role and Contribution of Strategic Planning Policy

Timo von Wirth, Research Scientist, ETH Zurich, Natural and Social Science Interface (NSSI), Zurich, SWITZERLAND. How Does Urban Transformation Impact on Place Attachment and Residential Satisfaction? Insights from a Swiss Case Study

Christopher Wyczalkowski, Doctoral Student, Georgia State University/Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA. Return of the Streetcar Suburbs; They Have Been Here All Along

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